Indie-Hacker

A real breakdown of the tech stack needed to build a virtual coworking cafe without going broke on WebRTC bandwidth.

What happens when you build a niche productivity tool to cure your own ADHD and random people on the internet start moving in.

A reality check on the r/sideproject playbook of taking nearly a year to launch, and the brutal infrastructure choices that follow.

Smart sprinklers are overpriced garbage. I built a $12 open-source ESP32 valve controller and it actually survives the rain.

Someone on r/sideproject built a desktop pet that lives in your DOM and punishes you for reading Hacker News. I built it, broke it, and ran the numbers.

A deep dive into the three best tech stacks for building a topographical map poster generator with rotating video output.

How to build a real-time browser chat app with working 2000s-era sounds, nudges, and winks without melting your server.

A deep dive into a side project that maps webcam hand tracking to MIDI controls, straight from the r/sideproject trenches.

A redditor forgot that doubling the moves in chess doesn’t add strategy, it nukes the board. Here is why Double-Move chess collapses.

Self-hosting your hoard of side projects doesn’t require a massive AWS bill. Here is how I moved 14 apps to a single Hetzner box.